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I'd lean toward making something. What depends on what youre good at/interested in.
For example, we've been making Christmas cards. Its just random designs on watercolor paper. Then you cut that paper out into shapes, and take some cardboard to go underneath, and glue it onto cardstock. This particular idea comes from Andrea Nelson, simple watercolor tags and cards.
The results are great, and a personally written, handmade card... Well to me that beats out most cheap gifts because it has thought and intention behind it.
You can also make ornaments (there are some great ones like a marbling paint bath for cheap wooden ornaments from craft stores, taking cheap ornaments and repainting them with more details, cheap craft ornaments and doing a chalky finish, felt and glitter, whatever) or whatever else. We do a lot of crafting and repurposing here, in case you couldn't guess.
Maybe you could bake some bread, make cookies, a pie, etc.
You mentioned a plant - what about a cheap planter with some custom work on it?
Maybe some dining room placemats if youre good at sewing?
Mugs with the mixings for hot chocolate?
Diy air freshener with some essential oils?
It doesnt have to be a lot of money, complicated, etc to be a great gift. One year I printed up an old map of an area my parents lived in, and traced specific roads and important spots I knew about in twine on the map (with a decent bit of glue obviously, then mod podged the whole damn thing).
So, what things are you into creating? How could that be related to a gift that shows your appreciation?